🪄 Datacmd: auto-generative dashboards from different sources in your CMD

The Ultimate Terminal Dashboard

Turn any data source into a stunning interactive dashboard, directly in your terminal. No fluff, no GUI, just pure terminal sorcery. ⚡

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🚀 Why you'll love Datacmd

Tired of bloated web UIs? datacmd brings data visualization back to where real devs live: the terminal.

• ⚡ One Command = Instant Dashboard
• 📊 Dynamic Widgets: Tables, charts, gauges, pies, radars & more
• 🧠 Smart Layout Engine: Auto-generates from data OR use YAML to customize
• 💻 Real-Time Feeds: From APIs, metrics, JSON, CSV
• 🧼 Zero Setup: No deps, no bullshit, just go run

Think of it like htop meets grafana, but cooler and terminal-native.

It follows my obsession with data, which I developed by building https://datastripes.com, the web data engine that transform data analysis into simple flows.

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✨ Demo

_{📈 Realtime stock tracker via datacmd --source=stock.json}

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🧰 Installation (pick your style)

👉 Option 1: Download prebuilt binary (Recommended)

No setup, no Go, no stress.

✅ macOS · 🪟 Windows · 🐧 Linux

📦 Go to the Releases page and download the latest binary for your OS.

Then:

# macOS / Linux
chmod +x datacmd
./datacmd --generate --source=your-data.csv

# Windows
datacmd.exe --generate --source=your-data.csv

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🛠 Option 2: Run from source (for Developers)

git clone https://github.com/VincenzoManto/Datacmd.git
cd datacmd
go mod tidy
go run main.go --generate --source=your-data.csv

🧠 How it works

# Auto-generate a dashboard from any CSV or JSON
datacmd --generate --source=./data.csv

# Or load your own layout
datacmd --config=dashboard.yml

Data sources supported:

• .csv 📂
• .json 📜
• REST APIs 🌐
• Live system metrics (CPU, RAM, disk) 🖥️

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🧩 Widgets you can use

• 📋 Table – Paginated, sortable
• 🎯 Gauge – Perfect for usage stats, thresholds
• 🍰 Pie Chart – Categorical comparisons
• 📈 Line Chart – Trends, time-series
• 📡 Radar – Multi-metric comparisons
• 💬 Text Box – Notes, alerts, logs
• 🔢 Number – Big, bold KPIs
• 📊 Funnel – Visualize stages in a process

Customize via YAML, or let --generate do it all.

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📦 Installation

git clone https://github.com/VincenzoManto/Datacmd.git
cd datacmd
go mod tidy

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🪄 Quick Start

Example: stock.json

[
  {"ticker": "AAPL", "price": 175.50, "volume": 1200000},
  {"ticker": "GOOG", "price": 140.25, "volume": 950000},
  {"ticker": "MSFT", "price": 280.75, "volume": 1500000}
]

go run main.go --generate --source=stock.json

Instantly shows:

• 📋 Table of stocks
• 🎯 Volume gauges
• 🍰 Market share pie chart

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🎨 YAML Customization

layout:
  - type: table
    source: stock.json
    fields: [ticker, price, volume]

  - type: pie
    title: "Market Share"
    field: volume

Your dashboard, your rules.

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🧬 Inspired by Datastripes. Rebuilt for Power Users.

datacmd is the spiritual open source successor to Datastripes, reimagined with more muscle, more magic, and zero fluff.

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Linked resources

Based on datacmd, with the team @ Datatripes, we developed our complete and curated toolkit for data analysis

🤝 Community

We’re building more than a CLI, we’re starting a movement. Star the repo ⭐, submit PRs, file issues, or just show us the wild dashboards you build.

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📝 License

Apache 2.0, free as in freedom and fast as in Go.

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🔥 Stop using Grafana for your side projects

I built `datacmd`, a tool that turns CSV/JSON/API into live dashboards,  directly in your terminal

✅ No deps
🪄 Auto layout
⚡ One command

→ https://github.com/VincenzoManto/datacmd